Health & Wellness
Access comprehensive health services and telehealth solutions tailored for graduate students. Our dedicated clinic ensures your well-being, providing in-person care and virtual consultations for convenience and support.
Navigate challenges with the Baylor Counseling Center. Engage in private sessions or group therapy, designed to empower graduate students with tools for emotional resilience and personal development.
Discover a vibrant world of campus recreation, highlighted by the McLane Student Life Center. From fitness to relaxation, our facilities provide graduate students with opportunities to rejuvenate and thrive.
Other Resources
Graduate Student Health Insurance
Baylor University requires all degree-seeking students enrolled in the Graduate School and Garland School of Social Work (including online students) to maintain health insurance. Students must either enroll in Baylor’s Student Health Insurance Plan or waive Baylor’s insurance by providing proof of alternative coverage. Students who take no action will be automatically enrolled in Baylor’s plan.
Spiritual Life
The Office of Spiritual Life offers programs, persons, and resources to nurture theological depth, spiritual wholeness, and missional living in students, faculty, and staff.
McLane Student Life Center
The McLane Student Life Center is a 156,000 sq. ft. multi-recreational facility that boasts the tallest free-standing climbing structure in Texas, an aquatics center, 3-tiered fitness facility, and four courts equipped to support basketball or volleyball. Check out some of the many other areas designed and equipped to provide students, faculty, staff and their guests with a superb recreational experience.
NOTE: Doctoral students must be registered for the summer term in order to maintain free access over the summer. You can register for an FTE (Full Time Equivalent) course in order to maintain "active student" status in the system.
Amenities
Aquatic Center
Fitness Center
Rock Climbing Wall
Bouldering Pit
Massage Therapy
Intramural Sports
Childbirth & Adoption Accommodation
In recognition of the challenges of balancing the demands of graduate study and parenting a new child, this policy aims to improve the environment for Graduate Assistant (GAs) student-parents by addressing the conflicts and issues that may arise as the two goals of advanced education and parenthood intersect.
Rooms for Nursing Mothers
Click here for a map of nursing rooms open to faculty, staff, students, and visitors to campus.
Short-Term Leave Accommodation
Graduate students suffering from a serious medical condition may apply for short-term medical leave from their academic and assistantship responsibilities. Either the graduate students or their graduate program directors (on behalf of their graduate student) may apply for this emergency leave.
GPS Workshops on Wellness in Graduate School
Watch recordings of "Graduate Pathways to Success" workshops that address building community, dealing with failure, faith and work, self-care and more.